AFRO-BRAZILIAN SCIENCE AND CUTURE AS A BIC OF SEVEN HEADS: the relationship between racial issue and Science and Technology Policy in Brazil 2003-2016
This research analyzes how the relationship between the Brazilian Federal Government's Science and Technology Policy (PCT), in the period from 2003 to 2016, and the Brazilian racial question, specifically with regard to the establishment of epistemological dialogues between scientific knowledge and traditional Afro-Brazilian knowledge, such as medicinal knowledge. Specifically, we developed the following objectives: 1) to present the contributions brought by the studies on coloniality to think about the way the question of race appears within these perspectives; 2) to situate the debate on science and technology policy within the general debate on science; 3) to analyze the documents of the National Conferences on Science and Technology held during the period studied, considering the types of narratives incorporated. The provisional hypothesis is that the PCT is crossed by structural racism that has epistemic racism among its expressions, materialized by the erasure, invisibility and silencing of non-eurocentered knowledges. The central references of this research are aligned with the epistemological perspectives that take as reference the so-called Global South. For this, we consider the contributions of authors such as Santos (2000, 2008), in addition to the perspective of decolonial studies from Grosfoguel (2008, 2011). From the point of view of methodological instruments, this research had a qualitative approach via bibliographic and documentary research. In the bibliographic research, carried out by means of thesis searches, dissertations, scientific articles, etc., we tried to analyze how the relationship between PCT and racial issue has been approached in the period defined for analysis. The documental survey was conducted in materials made available on the website of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Scientific and Technological Council - CNPq and the National Institute of Science and Technology for Inclusion in Teaching and Research (INCTI) and aimed to verify how the materials analyzed contemplate the interaction between science, culture, stimulating epistemological dialogues between the so-called "scientific" knowledge and traditional Afro-Brazilian knowledge.